Benefits Of Essential Oils For Dry And Chapped Lips

Hi Everyone!! Today, I am going to share the benefits of essential oils for dry and chapped lips.

We all yearn to have soft and beautiful lips but sometimes it becomes difficult to maintain beautiful lips due to various factors. Dry lips can occur due to many factors such as weather conditions, dehydration and medications etc. These dry and chapped lips are not only painful but also look unattractive.

Benefits Of Essential Oils For Dry And Chapped Lips

Though there are a lot of products available in the market to treat such lips but, using essential oils for dry and chapped lips is the best natural way to treat them. Let’s see how to use essential oils for dry and chapped lips.

How To Use Essential Oils For Dry And Chapped Lips?

I will be sharing four recipes to show the usage of essential oils for treating dry and chapped lips.

Lip Balms

One of the amazing benefits of essential oils for dry and chapped lips is their use in making lip balm. Lips have thinner skin as compared to the rest of the face. It gets peeled off easily when dry. The condition becomes worst during the winter season. So, the best way to keep the lips well moisturized is to apply lip balms. Lip balms that are made with essential oils are more beneficial because these are natural and will not cause any harm.

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Recipe 1: Coconut Oil Lip Balm

Ingredients Required

• Coconut Oil – 1 tablespoon
• Olive Oil – 1 tablespoon
• Beeswax – one tablespoon

All the above ingredients can be purchased from www.amazon.in

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What All You Need To Do?

• Put all the ingredients in a bowl.
• Blend them well.
• Now, heat this mixture using double boiler method.

  

• Let the oils and beeswax melt together. Mix them well.
• Now, pour the prepared mixture into the container.
• Let it cool down.
• Your lip balm is ready to use.

Benefits Of Coconut Oil

We all are aware of the health benefits of coconut oil but we hardly know that the oil offers beauty benefits too. It has Vitamin E, antioxidants and fatty acid emollients that help in moisturizing and nourishing the lips. Moreover, it gives a nice aroma and has a long shelf life. Such qualities of coconut oil make it an ideal ingredient in lip balms.

Olive oil also contains Vitamin E and antioxidants, and other nutrients that make it a great remedy for dry and chapped lips.

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Recipe 2: Mint Flavoured Tea Tree Oil Lip Balm

Second, recipe showing the benefits of essential oils for dry and chapped lips is Tea tree oil lip balm.

Ingredients Required

• Jojoba Oil – 2 tablespoon
• Peppermint Essential Oil – 3 drops
• Tea Tree Essential Oil – 2 drops
• Beeswax – 2 teaspoons

All the above ingredients can be purchased from www.amazon.in

What All You Need To Do?

• In a metal container, mix jojoba oil and beeswax.
• Heat this mixture on a low flame until wax is completely melted and mixed with jojoba oil.
• Remove the pan from heat. Now, add peppermint and Tea Tree essential oils.
• Mix them well.
• Now, pour the prepared mixture into the container.
• Let it cool down.
• Your lip balm is ready to use.

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Benefits Of Peppermint And Tea Tree Essential Oil

Peppermint essential oil gives refreshing menthol smell and aroma. It gives minty flavor to lip balms. Moreover, it helps in smoothening and softening of dry lips. In addition, it helps in cooling the sunburnt lips.

Tea Tree essential oil has healing properties that are effective in treating dry and chapped lips.

Recipe 3: Four Oil Blend Lip Balm (30 Treatments)

Ingredients Required

• Aloe Vera Oil – ½ oz (approximately 15 ml)
• Neroli Essential Oil – 1 drop
• Rose Geranium Essential Oil – 2 drops
• Roman Chamomile Essential Oil – 1 drop
• Rose Essential Oil – 1 drop
• Rollerball glass tube or dark coloured glass bottle

All the above ingredients can be purchased from www.amazon.in

What All You Need To Do?

• Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients well.
• Now, fill this prepared mixture in a roller ball glass tube with the help of a funnel. Your lip balm is ready.
• Apply the lip balm to your lips.
• Repeat the treatment as required getting the relief.
• Keep the balm with you when you are actively using it otherwise store it in a cool dark place.

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Recipe 4: Frankincense – Lavender Lip Balm (60 Treatments)

Last recipe showing the benefits of essential oils for dry and chapped lips is Frankincense-Lavender Lip Balm.

Ingredients Required

• Any carrier oil of your choice such as jojoba or avocado oil – ½ oz (approximately 15 ml)
• Frankincense Essential Oil – 30 drops
• Lavender Essential Oil – 30 drops
• Rollerball glass tube or dark coloured glass bottle

All the above ingredients can be purchased from www.amazon.in

What All You Need To Do?

• Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients well.
• Now, fill this prepared mixture in a roller ball glass tube with the help of a funnel. Your lip balm is ready.
• Apply the lip balm to your lips.
• Repeat the treatment as required getting the relief.
• Keep the balm with you when you are actively using it otherwise store it in a cool dark place.

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Benefits Of Frankincense And Lavender Essential Oil

Lavender Essential Oil has soothing and healing properties and offers great relief to dry, chapped and painful lips.

Frankincense Essential Oil will not only heal but will also smooth up your lips.

So, these were some amazing benefits of essential oils for dry and chapped lips. Now, you need not bear the pain of dry, chapped lips when you have essential oils within reach.

Word Of Caution

• Though essential oils are natural but they are very strong and powerful. So, make sure not to apply these essential oils directly to your lips because it may cause irritation or allergic reaction. So, go for a patch test first and then apply.
• Dilute your chosen essential oil with a suitable carrier oil before applying it to your lips. The best carrier oils for chapped lips are coconut oil, jojoba oil, olive oil and almond oil.